The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you

We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.